The article is devoted to the research of self-protection of property rights as a form of protection of civil rights and legitimate interests of the participants of civil relations.

The main problems, which are paid attention to in the research, are: the identification of the specificities of self-defense of rights, the specific use of particular tools and methods of non-jurisdictional form of protection of property rights, research the conditions of legitimacy and legality of the use of such methods. The peculiarities of self-defense and self-protection of property rights and their definitions are examined in this article, the legal nature of non-jurisdictional forms of protection of property rights is learned, the way of use of certain means of self-defense is specified. The author also offers a number of way and means of use of self-protection of rights, which should essentially improve the legal regulation of relations in learned field.